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Mozart and Da Ponte’s serial seducer is back! Francesca Zambello’s fiery interpretation has two great casts, with Royal Opera regulars and audience favourites Gerald Finley and Erwin Schrott sharing the title role. The first of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas this Season, it is a musical masterpiece of a work and a visual treat of a production.

The second of the three Mozart-Da Ponte operas this Season is intimate and intense. This is Mozart at his finest. Colin Davis conducts in the repertory for which he is universally acclaimed. Jonathan Miller’s staging matches contemporary elegance with eternal truths as two men wager on their girlfriends’ fidelity with uneasy results. This is fine opera, a classic production and an ideal cast.